David Flanagan

@rawkode.bsky.social

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Helping developers & operators level-up with Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Rust, WebAssembly, & Nix. 🌟 Founder @rawkode.academy 💼 CoreWeave 📆 Co-Organiser @kubernetes.london 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I’m now a Solutions Architect at CoreWeave
A pixel-art style cartoon depicts a duel between two pirate characters on a ship's deck at night. On the left is a sleek, glowing blue, crystalline humanoid pirate labeled "Wasm WASI" holding a shining sword. On the right is a rusty, blocky metal robot pirate with the face of the Go Gopher and the Go logo on its chest, holding a large, rusted sword. The Go robot says: "My performance rivals that of bare metal!" The Wasm pirate replies: "Only if that metal is being used to anchor a very slow boat."
Terminal with command "podman kube play deployment.yaml"
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Asking claude code to ensure a certain service never sees the light of day again
A brown Degu getting a wee scratch and enjoying it
A pixel art image in the style of the Monkey Island games depicting two video game developers, a man and a woman, facing each other in a sword-fighting stance. They are in what appears to be a messy office or breakroom. Instead of swords, they are holding keyboards. Speech bubbles are above their heads. The man's speech bubble says, "You treat your servers like pets, I hear you even give them names!" The woman's speech bubble says, "And you treat your persistent data like cattle, ready for the slaughter!"
Homepage for Klustered, accepting new registrations
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AI agent trying to run bun install and then npm run deploy, because why use one tool when you can use two!
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Door mat that says "Welcome to my data"
I asked claude-code to fix a rebase which had many conflicts with package.json/bun.lock/other annoying files.
A split-screen or cleverly framed shot. In the foreground, the cheerful Chef Kube, in a spotless chef's uniform with a Kubernetes logo, proudly presents a perfect, glowing model of a Kubernetes cluster. Behind and around Chef Kube, just slightly out of direct focus or in quick cuts, is a kitchen in complete chaos: tangled, sparking wires; smoking, collapsed stacks of 'node' blocks; crumpled and burnt 'YAML' recipe cards; and an assistant discreetly using a fire extinguisher. The chef maintains a beaming smile, oblivious to or ignoring the surrounding disaster, highlighting the humorous contrast between the claimed simplicity and the complex reality of Kubernetes
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A C64 style keyboard
A new mechanical keyboard
Still image from a podcast recording with rawkode, nimbinatus, and hazel weakly
The Rawkode Academy has donated 10kUSD to OSS maintainers
Deno projects decides that they can throw away 50 years of Cron knowledge because they feel like it by changing day representation from 0-6 to 1-7
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